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Balloon being readied for launch!


Party continues


Clouds were in the mix quite early during the eclipse. We were all worried whether it would hinder our views.


The Clemson navigates the crowd






The winds buffeted the clouds around. Quite a few times they came close to the sun and covered the sun as well. It was illuminating to see that some times we could see the partially eclipsed sun even through the clouds.


Folks had developed ingenious ways of using the solar eclipse glasses - I especially liked the hands off approach this dude used!


While I was able to take a photo through the solar eclipse glasses, note that the photo does not give a true representation of the portion of the sun that's eclipsed (I need to work on this skill!)




It was quite interesting to see the sun being reflected in the shade of the cracker. Until this point, I hadn't realized that it was so easy to see the phases of the solar eclipse on the ground (even though I had read about it)











As you can see, though the sun is fully eclipsed, when the camera is not zoomed in, the sun appears whole (believe it or not, the above four photos are in sequence)!


Weird effect that I achieved by chance. This was right past totality, and I was not really looking through the lens when I clicked it.


Crescent sun reflected in the shade of trees - the pinhole effect, which was pretty counter-intuitive to me!